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We keep hearing about how Israel is committing war crimes in the war that Hamas triggered with the horrific terror attack on October 7.
We then have reports of thousands of Gazans that are killed with strikes — but without the media stating that Hamas, who are the elected officials in the Gaza Strip, don’t differentiate civilian and military casualties. (From some of the videos of Hamas terrorists returning to Gaza with hostages on October 7 and the experiences of the hostages themselves, maybe there’s a good reason for that.)
We rely on the media to keep us informed on what is happening half a world away, but how can we trust them? With new tools and information at our fingertips, internet sleuths are able to fact-check social media posts and other media claims instantly as one X user did over the weekend.
What she found was pretty incredible.
Robert Spencer reports in PJ Media:
Since Oct. 7, the public has been inundated with allegations of Israeli atrocities and human rights abuses. Israel, we’re told, is committing a “genocide” in Gaza, and, in fact, has been through all the years in which the Gazan population has grown steadily. The strange story of one young woman, or really, one photograph, is an object lesson in why such claims of Israeli evils should be taken with a large grain of salt.
On X, a poster who identifies herself as Hagit on Sunday posted a highly illuminating thread about a girl with “6 different identities,” and “all of them suffered from the IDF!” This is, said Hagit, “proof of how the Arab media blatantly lies regarding the ‘crimes of the occupation.” Is it really? Let’s see.
Source: PJ Media
Below is Hagit’s thread, but the posts are somewhat out of order. We’ll look at each example she cites from the earliest incident to the most recent.
Unbelievable: 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗶𝗿𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝟲 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀, all of them suffered from the IDF!
This is 𝙖 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙛 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙖𝙗 𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙖 𝙗𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨 regarding the “crimes of the occupation”. Just another horrifying… pic.twitter.com/AKFygmCw6r
— חגית חריפתא Hagit (@harifta) December 31, 2023
Using the photo of the handcuffed, blindfolded girl wearing a hijab, a French news website reported in 2015 that a 15-year-old girl was “murdered” by the IDF.
But not only the Arabic media lies.
On December 01, 2015 – According to this French website, the 15 year old was “murdered” by the IDF. pic.twitter.com/8bCmWGvvxn
— חגית חריפתא Hagit (@harifta) December 31, 2023
She appears to have made a miraculous recovery because, in June 2016, the Arabic news website, Wattan.net published an article that Salwa Taqaqta, who appears to have reverted to the tender age of 13 after her 2015 death, was sentenced to several months in prison and was released after 3 months. Just a few weeks earlier, the Palestine News Network reported that Salwa was a 14-year-old child prisoner and was denied release.
June 28, 2016 – Salwa Taqaqta, 13 or 14, sentenced for 4.5 months. released after three months.
A month and a half prior to that, on June 2nd, she was described as being 14. pic.twitter.com/J1kIg4psy4— חגית חריפתא Hagit (@harifta) December 31, 2023
Then, in November of that same year, a Turkic-language website used the same photo to report that poor, little Nurhan Awwad, 16, was sentenced to 13.5 years in prison by the mean, old Jewish government.
On November 25, 2016 – The Turkish website” reports” that the 16 years old girl, named Nurhan Awwad, was sentenced to 13.5 years in prison!! pic.twitter.com/nsbEZfSY0X
— חגית חריפתא Hagit (@harifta) December 31, 2023
In 2017, the Palestine Chronicle reported that 16-year-old Manar Majdi Shweiki was sentenced to 6 years in prison after the IDF found a knife in her backpack. The photo is the same one used by and is captioned, “Manar Shweiki after her arrest.”
February 5, 2017 – the girl is said to be Manar Majdi Shweiki, 16, sentenced to 6 years after finding a knife in her backpack. She was charged with knife possession and planning an attack. pic.twitter.com/o5QwiOwoDO
— חגית חריפתא Hagit (@harifta) December 31, 2023
In September 2018, another Arabic outlet, Sebafm.net, used the same photo in its report identifying the girl as 15-year-old Tasneem Basem Maatouq, who was arrested by the IDF to force her brother to surrender.
September 23, 2018 – this time she’s Tasneem Basem Maatouq, 15, and she was arrested to force her brother to surrender. pic.twitter.com/QCJD7mWpQ3
— חגית חריפתא Hagit (@harifta) December 31, 2023
In December 2019, the girl was identified by Felesteen News as Afnan Abu Sneing, 14, who was arrested by the IDF for possessing a knife.
December 08, 2019 – She’s Afnan Abu Sneina, who’s 14 arrested for possessing a knife. pic.twitter.com/6EqMtygQ95
— חגית חריפתא Hagit (@harifta) December 31, 2023
Here she is again in December 2023.
Before I tell you her real name, let’s see some of the other lies made by using this image and “story”.
For example, this article was posted two days ago claiming it’s a “𝗻𝗲𝘄 incident of occupation soldiers assaulting a Palestinian woman who was handcuffed and blinded after… pic.twitter.com/Gb97XouqS4
— חגית חריפתא Hagit (@harifta) December 31, 2023
Blindfold Girl’s photo has been posted on social media over the last few years as an example showing how Israel treats the sweet, innocent (sometimes knife-wielding) Palestinians.
The suffering and maltreatment of innocent Palestinians just going about their lives by the “jackbooted thugs” in the IDF is a recurring theme.
Here are some social media posts which were posted in 2018, 2020 and 2023, portraying her as an innocent teenager, not mentioning her name, not giving information and definitely not providing any context as to why she was arrested.
(I’ve got plenty of others) pic.twitter.com/qrHMndnXUs
— חגית חריפתא Hagit (@harifta) December 31, 2023
In 2023, the same photo shows up again on social media — still without a name and with no context given.
And this one who calls himself human rights lawyer, posted this three days ago. pic.twitter.com/TvTgoASyp4
— חגית חריפתא Hagit (@harifta) December 31, 2023
State-run Palestinian news reported in 2019 that she was just an innocent girl walking to school and was detained by the IDF for no apparent reason.
The most disturbing one is by WAFA, posted on December 8, 2019, describing her as an innocent child walking to school and ends up handcuffed.
Why disturbing?
Because, well, WAFA is the official state-run news agency of the Palestinian National Authority. pic.twitter.com/gCy4GeL19N
— חגית חריפתא Hagit (@harifta) December 31, 2023
Terrorist propaganda network Quds News posted the same photo on Instagram in 2021 showing the horrors that innocent Gazan girls are subjected to under “Israeli occupation.”
October 11, 2021 – The utterly heinous Quds News Network (affiliated by Hamas and the Islamic Jihad) posted the picture on Instagram as part of a post showcasing “pictures from the reality of the daily life that Palestinian girls live under the occupation that kills, captures,… pic.twitter.com/stKvs3aeeT
— חגית חריפתא Hagit (@harifta) December 31, 2023
That poor girl! She’s been through so much — and all at the hands of the IDF. Not to mention the multiple identities and constantly changing age. And you thought that Benjamin Button’s life was tough!
Not included in Hagit’s thread is the 2021 Al Jazeera report on a couple of West Bank “martyrs” that includes the same photo captioned, “Occupation forces arrest a Palestinian girl at the Nashash checkpoint under the pretext of possessing a knife.”
As it turns out, the multiple reports of the arrest of a teen girl who was found with a knife have a kernel of truth to them.
Hagit then reveals that, according to Israeli news reports, Sabreen Mujahid Sanad, 14, was arrested for planning a knife attack in 2015.
As to her real name? Apparently it is Sabreen Mujahid Sanad, arrested on December 1st, 2015 when apparently she was 14 years old.
According to Israeli media, which I trust 1000 times more than I do the Arab media or any “Human rights” related reports (now even more than ever) -… pic.twitter.com/BOpQhfTnp2
— חגית חריפתא Hagit (@harifta) December 31, 2023
Perhaps Sabreen was a patron of Hitler 2, the notorious Gaza clothing shop that used the 2015 Stabbing Intifada as inspiration for their front window display.
These are just *some* of the articles and posts I found.
Now – What is that with those frigging Palestinians who are dreaming of murdering us, planning it to the last detail and going about it, but then when they fail to do so – they are surprised to be treated as the…
— חגית חריפתא Hagit (@harifta) December 31, 2023
We know that media reports on what happens in Israel are biased because they come from biased sources.
- New York Times FINALLY Admits That Hamas Controls The News Coming Out Of Gaza
- NOT SATIRE: New York Times Hires Pro-Hitler, Pro-Hamas Videographer To Cover Israel-Gaza War
- Meet The AP Journo Who Chronicled The Hamas Attack In Real Time … With A Grenade In His Hand
- PALLYWOOD: Lib Journos Fall For Palestinian YouTuber Who MANY Hats
- Libs And Journos POUNCE On Gaza Hospital ‘Bombing’ — There’s Just One BIG Problem…
- The Associated Press Should Fire All Their Gaza Reporters
- WATCH: Saudi Journo Is More Honest About Hamas Than The New York Times
- PROPAGANDA PRESS: Useful Idiots In The Media Back Off From Calling Hamas Terrorists ‘Terrorists’
- EXPOSED: Associated Press Photojournalist Has A History Of Anti-Semitic Tweets
- WaPo Caption Said Israeli Children Held As Hostages In Gaza Were ‘Detained’ By Hamas
It’s probably safe to take every report about “Israeli atrocities” in the Gaza Strip with a hefty dose of skepticism.
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